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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Dragon Aurora over Iceland
NASA ^
| 14 Jan, 2024
| Image Credit & Copyright: Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng
Posted on 01/14/2024 11:50:59 AM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Have you ever seen a dragon in the sky? Although real flying dragons don't exist, a huge dragon-shaped aurora developed in the sky over Iceland in 2019. The aurora was caused by a hole in the Sun's corona that expelled charged particles into a solar wind that followed a changing interplanetary magnetic field to Earth's magnetosphere. As some of those particles then struck Earth's atmosphere, they excited atoms which subsequently emitted light: aurora. This iconic display was so enthralling that the photographer's mother ran out to see it and was captured in the foreground. Our active Sun continues to show an unusually high number of prominences, filaments, sunspots, and large active regions as solar maximum approaches in 2025.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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01/14/2024 11:51:15 AM PST
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MtnClimber
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Pinging the APOD list.
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01/14/2024 11:52:09 AM PST
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MtnClimber
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Looks similar to a friend’s, in Alaska, backyard pics :)
Beautiful!
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01/14/2024 11:52:14 AM PST
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Jane Long
(What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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01/14/2024 11:54:00 AM PST
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EEGator
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01/14/2024 12:20:52 PM PST
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Scarlett156
(#FREEDOM and our Constitutional Republic. )
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01/14/2024 12:52:27 PM PST
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NautiNurse
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01/14/2024 12:59:06 PM PST
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AFB-XYZ
(Two options: 1) Stand up, or 2) Bend over)
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Thought it was Jerry Nadler after one-too-many bean burritos.
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01/14/2024 1:21:19 PM PST
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Stosh
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01/14/2024 1:52:35 PM PST
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telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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Thank you MC!!
Pinging a buddy!
This so SO gorgeous!
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01/14/2024 2:47:54 PM PST
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MS.BEHAVIN
(Women who behave rarely make history.)
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01/14/2024 3:37:49 PM PST
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Rusty0604
(W looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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I thought you might enjoy that!
It really DOES look like a dragon!
I saw the Northern lights many moons ago in Maine.
They looked like huge football pennants.
But they did not looks as spectacular as THIS!
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01/14/2024 3:51:17 PM PST
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MS.BEHAVIN
(Women who behave rarely make history.)
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